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Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Barrett, D. H.; Ortmann, L. W.; Dawson, Angus; Saenz, C; Reis, A; Bolan, GPublished 2016-04-01Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues inherent in the practice of ...Open AccessBook -
Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
Ortmann, L. W.; Barrett, D. H.; Saenz, C; Bernheim, R. G.; Dawson, Angus; Valentine, J. A.; Reis, APublished 2016-04-01Introducing public health ethics poses two special challenges. First, it is a relatively new field that combines public health and practical ethics . Its unfamiliarity requires considerable explanation, yet its scope and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public health ethics: informing better public health practice (peer reviewed editorial)
Carter, SM; Kerridge, I; Sainsbury, P; Letts, JKPublished 2012-01-01Public health ethics has emerged and grown as an independent discipline over the last decade. It involves using ethical theory and empirical analyses to determine and justify the right thing to do in public health. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Research
Barrett, D. H.; Ortmann, L. W.; Brown, N; DeCausey, B. R.; Saenz, C; Dawson, AngusPublished 2016-04-01Having a scientific basis for the practice of public health is critical. Research leads to insight and innovations that solve health problems and is therefore central to public health worldwide. For example, in the United ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information to the general public: a focus group study
Smit, A K; Keogh, L A; Hersch, J; Newson, A.J.; Butow, PN; Williams, G; Cust, A EPublished 2016-02-06Background Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective ...Open AccessArticle -
Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information: a focus group study
Smit, Amelia K; Keogh, Louise A; Hersch, Jolyn; Newson, A.J.; Butow, Phyllis; Williams, Gabrielle; Cust, Anne EPublished 2016-12-01Background: Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective: ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Charitable Trusts
Stewart, C; Aparicio, L; Lipworth, W; Kerridge, IPublished 2014-09-01Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is the blood from foetal and maternal circulation in the placenta and umbilical cord. This blood is rich in haematopoietic stem cells. These cells have the capacity for self-renewal, proliferation ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Quitting unassisted: the 50-year research neglect of a major public health phenomenon.
Smith, Andrea L; Chapman, SimonPublished 2014-01-08Smoking cessation research today is dominated by the development and evaluation of interventions to improve the odds of quitting successfully. Yet little attention has been paid to the large majority of ex-smokers who quit ...Open AccessPost-print -
Racially-conditional donation: The example of umbilical cord blood
Komesaroff, P; Kerridge, I; Steward, C; Samuel, G; Lipworth, W; Jordens, CPublished 2012-01-01While direction of donated tissue to family members has long been accepted, direction to members of specific racial groups has been opposed, on the basis that it is discriminatory and contrary to the ethos the institution ...Open AccessArticle -
(Re)Moralizing the suicide debate
Fitzpatrick, S.J.Published 2014-04-01Contemporary approaches to the study of suicide tend to examine suicide as a medical or public health problem rather than a moral problem, avoiding the kinds of judgements that have historically characterised discussions ...Open AccessArticle -
Re: Operate with respect: how Australia is confronting sexual harassment of trainees
Williams, J; Mayes, C; Lipworth, WPublished 2016-09-01We applaud the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for their action plan addressing bullying and harassment (1) but consider that the problem goes much deeper than surgeons behaving badly. In 2015, we conducted a focus ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Re: The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: systematic review with meta-analysis (Rapid Response to Hollands et al)
Cust, AE; Smit, A; Newson, A.J.Published 2016-05-15Hollands et al provide an important contribution to evidence on the potential impact of DNA-based disease risk information on health behaviours. Based on the findings of their systematic review and meta-analysis, the authors ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Real-world Data to Generate Evidence About Healthcare Interventions
Lipworth, WPublished 2019-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Reconceptualizing Autonomy for Bioethics
Dive, Lisa Lehrer; Newson, A.J.Published 2018-01-01Autonomy plays a central role in bioethics, but there is no consensus as to how we should understand this concept. This paper critically considers three different conceptions of autonomy: the default conception prevalent ...Open AccessArticle -
Reconceptualizing involuntary outpatient psychiatric treatment: From "Capacity" to "Capability"
Light, E; Robertson, M; Kerridge, I; Boyce, P; Carney, T; Rosen, A; Cleary, M; Hunt, G; O'Connor, NPublished 2016-01-01Justifying involuntary psychiatric treatment on the basis of a judgment that a person lacks capacity is controversial because there are questions about the meaning and utility of the concept in this context. There are ...Open AccessArticle -
Reconfiguring tissue banking consent through enrichment of a restricted debate
Lipworth, WPublished 2005-01-01Tissue banks are thought to be an essential resource for medical research in the post-genomic age. Collections of tissue, usually removed in the course of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, enable laboratory-based ...Open Access -
Reforming research ethics committees (Editorial).
Ashcroft, RE; Newson, A.J.; Benn, PMWPublished 2005-01-01For the first 25 years of their existence in the United Kingdom research ethics committees were left more or less in peace by the Department of Health. Since the publication of the “red book” in 1991, 1 however, they have ...Open AccessArticle -
Refusing medical treatment after attempted suicide : Rethinking capacity and coercive treatment in light of the Kerrie Wooltorton case
Callaghan, Sascha; Ryan, CPublished 2011-01-01The inquest into the death of Kerrie Wooltorton in Norfolk, England, ignited extensive public debate on the scope of the common law right to refuse medical treatment where a patient is distressed, depressed or actively ...Open AccessArticle -
Registering wishes about organ and tissue donation: personal discussion during licence renewal may be superior to online registration.
Lawlor, M; Kerridge, IPublished 2009-01-01Consent to organ and tissue donation is higher when the deceased has indicated a wish to donate. The Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) is the national register of preferences regarding donation. The AODR has a number ...Open AccessArticle -
Regulating risk and the boundaries of state conduct: a relational perspective on home birth in Australia
Skerman, J.K.; Newson, A.J.Published 2016-01-01The concept of motivated reasoning and conflicting moral domains behind the state’s conduct towards pregnant women, as described by Minkoff and Marshall (2015), can also be observed in the apparent attitudes towards homebirth ...Open AccessArticle
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